Karthekayan Iyer

If Nokia, Sony Ericsson and BlackBerry fell victim to rise of smartphones then one can say that LG and HTC (to a larger extent) fell to that of the rise of Chinese smartphones. LG was once among the top five smartphone players in the world and made phones that stood against Samsung s offerings. However,

Weather has always been an integral part of human society. Today, all it takes is a smartphone to know how weather conditions will vary on an hourly basis. With certain apps, you can also know the weather forecast for weeks in advance. In India, where Google's Android dominates the landscape, most users simply need to

Smartphone makers have been following the precedent set by Apple in 2016, when it launched the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus without the headphone jack. The lack of headphone jack and the hassle of carrying (and losing) the 3.5mm headphone dongle has forced a lot of consumers to switch to wireless headphones for listening

At IFA 2018, held in late August last year, all the major laptop makers, except Apple, introduced new devices. While Lenovo, HP, Dell had big presence at the show, there was a booth that had three unique products, but set away from most of the prying eyes. Yes, I am talking about the new ZenBook

When Apple launched the iPhone X in 2017 with an edge-to-edge display, the notch was passed off as a feature. However, while there were mixed reactions to the presence of a notch on your smartphone display, what stood out from 2018 was it became the standard on flagship smartphones, and trickling down the value chain.

At an event held in Hong Kong last month, Honor became the first smartphone maker to introduce a mobile device with both 48-megapixel rear camera and an in-screen selfie camera. Called Honor View20, the smartphone was dubbed as example of Honor's progress in the technological landscape and how it is pioneering the online smartphone market

The first half of 2018 in the smartphone world was dominated by notches, which came in all forms, shapes and sizes. As smartphone makers looked for new ways to bring edge-to-edge display design to smartphones in 2017, they stumbled upon the idea of putting a notch at the top of the display. Essential, the company

At the launch of Realme U1 in November last year, Realme introduced its first wired earphones called the Realme Buds. The move can be seen as an attempt by the former subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker, Oppo, to move beyond the description of a smartphone maker. History is a proof to the fact that all

Microsoft is set to bring the Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Pro 6 to India soon. At the Media and Analyst Days 2019 being held in Bangalore, Microsoft showed the two new devices alongside the Surface Book 2 and Surface Go, suggesting its two new Surface devices are ready for launch in the country. Microsoft

Microsoft and Intel defined what a modern computer should look like when they announced the idea of a netbook in 2007. The netbooks were evolutionary because it gave importance to portability ahead of everything and it was so promising that all Windows OEMs decided to throw their hat. However, what they didn t know back